Compositions from the tragedies of Æschylvs
By: designed by Iohn Flaxman ; engraved by Thomas Piroli.
Contributors: Piroli, Tommaso, ca. 1752-1824.
Series: Blake -- no. 1045; Blake -- no. 1052; Blake -- no. 1054
Publisher: Published for I. Flaxman, Junr. by J. Matthews ...
Published: 1795
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: Aeschylus -- Illustrations -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Compositions from the tragedies of Æschylus
Notes: Date appears after Junr. on engraved t.p.

"The original drawings in the possession of the Countess Dowager Spencer."

ESTC (RLIN), T160786

Gift to Victoria University Library (copies 1-3). Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.

Victoria University Library copy 1 (Blake no. 1045) is on paper with various watermark dates later than 1795: E & P 1804 (plates 3, 5, 21, 22, 24-26, 30); CANSELL 1807 (last two fly-leaves); RUSE & TURNERS 1810 (second fly-leaf).

Victoria University Library copy 2 (Blake no. 1052C) on bluish white paper with watermark, GL C. Trimmed to 27 x 42 cm. Bound in 1/2 dark green morocco over purple marbled boards, the spine gilt with "Flaxman Iliad Odyssey Aeschlyus of Homer Carstens Les Argonauts".

Victoria University Library copy 3 (Blake no. 1054A): Bound in contemporary 1/2 brown morocco over khaki cloth labeled on the spine in gold:  Flaxman's Homer and Eschylus. Wove paper with a scarcely visible weaving pattern.  Trimmed to 26 x 34 cm. with 5 plates folded to fit.

Victoria University Library copy 3 (Blake no. 1054A) is incomplete: lacks plates 6 and 14.